Re: X86_64: Many Lost ticks

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Andi Kleen wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 04:02:55AM +0000, kernel-stuff@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I have a X86_64 laptop (Compaq Presario R3240) with all BIOS updates in place. I routinely get the "Warning : many lost ticks" message in dmesg. 
> 
> Known problem.  ACPI uses a broken way to access the EC register,
> and VIA chipsets take extremly long for this operation.  This
> happens regularly to read the system temperature.
> A fix is currently being discussed. 

It's an nforce3, do those also have a similar issue? I have similar 
hardware and rarely see it, could you test a newer kernel?
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